US2871592A - Identification bracelet - Google Patents

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• • G—PHYSICS
  • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
  • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
  • G09F3/00—Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
  • G09F3/005—Identification bracelets, e.g. secured to the arm of a person
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10S24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps
  • Y10S24/30—Separable-fastener or required component thereof
  • Y10S24/43—Separable-fastener or required component thereof including member having distinct formations and mating member selectively interlocking therewith
  • Y10S24/47—Selectively interlocking member having movably attached or biased interlocking component
  • Y10S24/48—And cavity for guiding movement of formations
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
  • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
  • Y10T24/45—Separable-fastener or required component thereof [e.g., projection and cavity to complete interlock]
  • Y10T24/45005—Separable-fastener or required component thereof [e.g., projection and cavity to complete interlock] with third detached member completing interlock [e.g., hook type]
  • Y10T24/45016—Separable-fastener or required component thereof [e.g., projection and cavity to complete interlock] with third detached member completing interlock [e.g., hook type] for jewelry

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• this invention relates to identification bracelets useful for civilian defense purposes, in girls and boys camps, jails and other institutions, but especially in hospitals, and has more particular reference to an identification device in V the form of a band which may have its opposite ends connected to form a bracelet encircling a limb of a hos- Patented Feb. 3,'-1s59 ice the snap fastener may-be readily moved out of the way while a connection'is being established between the male pitaliz ed person, the band having provision to receive i and hold' a card with information and/ or indicla thereon to identify the hospitalized person.
• an object of this invention to provide an identification band which has none of the objections outlined above, and which features easy to close and exceptionally secure fastening means by which its ends may be joined together entirely without the use of tools to form a bracelet encircling the limb of a hospitalized.
• a snap fastener closes the mouth of the pocket, and the male element of the snap fastener projects through one of a series of lengthwise spaced apart apertures in the other end portion of the band to thus connect the ends of the band in bracelet fashion.
• the male and'female elements of the snap fastener were secured in the walls of the pocket, near the mouth thereof, and consequently it was somewhat difiicult to align the projecting male portion of the fastener with one of the apertures in the band, since the female member hid the area in which the connection was being made. To minimize this objection, the female snap fastener element and the apertured end portion of the band.
• the identification band of this invention generally comprises an elongated strip 5 of flexible material, preferably a plastic of a type which has exceptionally good resistance to tearing when subjected to A substantial length of the band at one end portion thereof is widened to form one side wall 6 of an elongated pocket generally designated 7.
• Theother side wall of the pocket is "provided by a strip 8 of transparent and flexible plastic material.
• the strip 8 serves as the top or outer wall of the pocket when the, band is in use, and it has slightly less width than the bottom wall 6 of the pocket.
• the transparent strip is secured to the Wider wall 6 of the pocket along both longitudinal margins thereof by bonded joints it which are formed'by subjecting the overlapping marginal edge portions of the two pocket forming walls to heat and pressure in a well known manner.
• the wall 8 of the pocket is alsobonded to the band along a transverse line 11 at the junction of the band with the pocket, by the same means as effects the joints it ⁇ , all of these joints being made at the same time in a press heated to a suitably high temperature.
• the transparent top or outer wall 8 of the pocket is slightly narrower in its transverse dimension than the bottom wall 6 of the pocket, it will hold the wider bottom wall of the pocket in a bowed condition of outward transverse convexity as seen best in Figure 2. This is desirable not only from the standpoint of comfort to the wearer, but also by reason of the fact that the mouth 12 of the pocket is held agape to facilitate insertion of an identification card 13 of a size large enough to contain all of the informa tion or other indicia needed for proper identification of a hospitalized person.
• the card must be so inserted into the pocket that its indicia is visible through the window provided by the transparent wall 8 andthat whenthe band is in place on the limb of a patient the window faces outward.
• the pocket 7 is wide enough to also receive a length of the opposite end portion of the band.
• the two end portions of the band may be securely fastened together entirely without the use of'tools without preliminarily measuring and cutting the band to the size of the limb to be encircled thereby.
• the narrow end portion of the band is provided with a series of longitudinally spaced holes 14, any one of which is cooperable with a fastening device 15 to join the ends of the band and to close the mouth of the pocket.
• the fastening device 15 comprises a snap fastener having cooperating male and female elements 16 and 17. At the ends of the two walls of the pocket adjacent to its mouth are a pair of flaps 18 and 19.
• the lower flap 1% is integral with the bottom or inner wall of the pocket, and thus comprises the end of the band itself, while the upper flap 19 is integral with and thus flexibly joined to the outer" transparent wall 8.
• the female element 17 of the snap fastener is secured to the upper flap 19, while the male element 16 is secured to the adjacent. end of the band which provides the lower flap 18.
• the female fastener element has a hole or well 20 therein of a size to tightly receive a tit or button 21 on the male element, projecting from the outer face of the band.
• the holes 14 in the narrow end portion of the band are of a size to freely accommodate the button 21 on the male fastening element, and the latter is adapted to be projected through one of these holes when the band is formed into a bracelet.
• the band When it is desired to secure the band about the wrist or ankle of a hospitalized person, the band is wrapped around the desired limb with the transparent wall or window 8 of the pocket outermost and the convexly curved bottom wall of the pocket against the limb. This automatically assures that the male element of the fastener will face outward. A length of the apertured end portion of the band is then inserted into the pocket through the mouth 12 thereof to a distance such as to bring the band into more or less snugencircling relationship with the limb and to align one of the holes 14 in the band with the button 21 on the male element of the fastener.
• the pocket 7 has sufiicient length so as to not only accommodate a suitable identification card 13 containing all of the necessary information pertaining to the hospitalized person, but to also accommodate a substantial length of the apertured end portion of the band, if necessary, thus enabling the band to be adjusted to form a bracelet of any of a wide variety of sizes.
• the apertured end portion of the band is inserted under the identification card, it not only leaves the entire card readily visible through the transparent wall 8 of the pocket, but the card itself serves to hide that end portion of the band which is disposed in the pocket inwardly of the snap fastener.
• this invention provides an identification band which can be formed into a bracelet to encircle the limb of a hospitalized person or the like, and which band features a pocket to accommodate an identification card, and fastening means for joining the opposite ends of the band together in a simple but. most secure manner, entirely without the aid of tools,.and by which fastening means the identification card is held in its pocket without danger of displacement; and it will also be apparent that the identification device of this invention may be very quickly and easily adjustedto the required size and securely fastened in place, even on the limb of a squirming infant.
• An identification bracelet comprising: a band of flexible material one end portion of which has a row of spaced apart perforations disposed longitudinally of the band; means on the other end portion of the band defining an elongated pocket having opposing walls and a mouth opening to the adjacent extremity of the hand, one of said opposing walls being integral with the band and the other being transparent, said opposing walls being permanently bonded to one another along both longitudinal margins thereof and along a transverse line which is adjacent to the junction between the band and the pocket so as to enable the pocket to hold a card with indicia thereon legibly visible through the transparent wall and to receive a substantial length of the opposite end portion of the band; a pair of flaps, each comprising a lengthwise extension of one of said Walls of the pocket at the mouth thereof; and a snap fastener comprising cooperating male and female elements secured on said flaps, the
• male element being adapted to be engaged with the female element through any one of the apertures in the band when the apertured end portion of the band is inserted into the pocket to form the band into a bracelet, and by which engagement of the snap fastener elements a card is secured in the pocket.
• a unitary identification bracelet adapted to be applied to the limb of a hospitalized patient, comprising: a band of flexible material having a row of apertures in one end portion thereof, said apertures being spaced lengthwise of the band; a short flap flexibly connected with the band at its other end for movement to and from a closed position flatwise overlying the adjacent end portion of the band and a part of the apertured portion of the band which may be laid thereon; a snap fastener to secure the flap in its closed position with the male element of the fastener passing through a selected one of the apertures to thus form the band into a bracelet of a size depending upon which of the apertures the male element passes through, the male element of the fastener being secured to said end portion of the band and projecting up from the side thereof which is covered by the flap when the latter is in its closed position, and the female element being secured to the flap and having its mouth at the side thereof which faces downwardly towards the band in the closed position of the flap; and an elongated substantially rectangular window of transparent flexible material

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• 1958
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